| sc94597 said: If we use the qualifying term, "worthwhile" it's not like the other consoles are much better. Nintendo can easily advertise its diverse online offerings and free online without talking about their competitors. I mean if we're going to pretend the PS4/Xbone has a dozens upon dozens of good online games then we can at least add MH3U (Action), Injustice: Gods Among Us, and ZombiU to that list. At the end of the day it is quality that matters when it comes to online games, not quantity. Nobody plays online in dozens of games. They have a few games that they like to play online on a consistent basis, and the rest of the games they might dabble in a little here and there. That is just the nature of online gaming, it is competitive and not pick up and play. Since Smash Bros, Mario Kart, and (potentially) Splatoon are excellent in quality and high demanded games it is a no brainer to advertise them, and the "free-online" bit is just to act as the icing on the cake. |
They can't talk advertise their online being free without indirectly comparing themselves to their competitors. It's not pretending. There are far more relevant games on the PS4 and XBO to use the online for. None of the games you mention, other than maybe MH3U, has an active enough online community to be worth mentioning.
Quality is absolutely not all that matters. If you're a huge fan of those three games, then you already own a Wii U, and there's no reason to advertise it's free online. If you don't and you hear that the online is free, you're naturally going to see if there are other offerings that makes the free online relevant to you, and when the closest decent alternative is an incredibly niche game like MH, it makes Nintendo look bad. Everyone knows that the online on the Wii U is free, but no one cares because they probably wouldn't use it much anyway unless they happen to fall in the very specific camp that will naturally like those three games.
I just think it's unwise to put any emphasis on the free online when there are so many easy ways that people will spin it negatively. Until Nintendo's online offerings are on par in software variety to the competition, they should not focus on it being free. It's not enough of a selling point.
